Accurate prediction of ship roll motion is essential for safe and autonomous navigation. This study presents a deep learning framework that estimates both roll motion and epistemic uncertainty using Monte Carlo (MC) Dropout. Two architectures, a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network and a Transformer encoder, were trained on HydroD–Wasim simulations covering various sea states, speeds, and damage conditions, and validated with...

Plates and curved plates are essential components in ship construction. In the design stage, the methods used to evaluate the ultimate strength required to confirm the structural safety of plates include prediction through analytical methods, finite-element analysis (FEA), and empirical formulas. However, with nonlinear buckling, the results of the empirical formula and the FEA differ for small flank angles (1~9). As a result,...

Capsizing accidents are regarded as marine accidents with a high rate of casualties per accident. Approximately 89% of all such accidents involve small ships (vessels with gross tonnage of less than 10 tons). Stability calculations are critical for assessing the risk of capsizing incidents and evaluating a ship’s seaworthiness. Despite the high frequency of capsizing accidents involving them, small ships are generally exempt f...

Global ship analysis is conducted using a finite element model (FE model) for ship design and construction, which involves structural, motion, and vibration analyses. It is crucial to examine the structural safety of the hull and motion response. In the ship FE model used in global ship analysis, weight distribution is employed to adjust the light weight and center of gravity (COG), which are required to perform the analysis....